My Story
posted June 29th, 2016 at 10:11 PM
After finishing my grade 10 I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. My dad worked for the local municipal government and got me a job in maintenance.
Time went by really fast. I got married had three kids bought a house in Kerrisdale and had my retirement party last month.
I was never a go getter. I never really pursued promotions. I was just happy to have a good job with a pension and my weekends to go fishing and vacations in the summer.
But looking back on my life I have some regrets. I wish I didn't take the easy road and just stay with the same job for 35 years. Maybe I should have graduated from high school and became a doctor or an engineer. Or started a business.
I want all young people to take chances in life and not look back at your life with regret.
13 Comments
Post a CommentAnonymous
Jun 30, 2016 at 6:46am
Seems these days people with degrees or who own a business are the ones struggling. There's no one way to live life. Being a doctor or aiming for promotions isn't the centre of happiness for everyone. I am the opposite. Most jobs I wouldnt mind doing may be low paying but I have so much passion and love for these areas.
Don't dwell so much on the past. Seems like life was decent to you. Take advantage of it now seeing as you're retired. My generation won't be that lucky even with a degree.
Tyler
Jun 30, 2016 at 7:52am
I love the sentiment of what you wrote, and I do agree that everyone should pursue their dreams, but I have to say that it sounds to me like you have done really well. Far better than most and I wish I have what you do (or did). A job with a pension. A home in a beautiful neighborhood. To be able to retire in my 50's. Those three things seem completely unattainable to me. It sounds like you have had a great life.
U
Jun 30, 2016 at 8:08am
did good. A lot of young people today would kill to have a job and life like you've had. Now it's a life of unpaid or low wage internships being over educated or get contracted out working for companies that might not last or maybe get bought out or something. Plus what young person can afford to buy a house? Even if u didn't have a pension u have it in ur house. U could go back to school now that ur retired
Jacky_Blue_Note
Jun 30, 2016 at 11:11am
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount of time has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing.
~ Seneca
sounds splendid
Jun 30, 2016 at 11:20am
there can always be regret. regret for striving for a job you ended up not liking, regretting stressing out on working , regret for wasting time dieting, regret for not devoting more tie to your family and regretting not keeping your friends. your life sounds great actually. Great life path!
To be honest
Jun 30, 2016 at 12:03pm
Your life doesn't sound bad at all. I wish my life had turned out like yours.
hiStory
Jun 30, 2016 at 3:40pm
myself, its been the opposite. most of my 20s i did whatever i wanted, living out of the city, living simply, spending time at the ocean and making art with cheap rent and jobs here and there and stretches of unemployment. my 30s started seeing better jobs and higher standards of living, but still whatever i wanted. now in my 40s im making as much as a teacher. no mortgage or pension, but no regrets. oh yeah, ive never been in debt ever in my life.
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Jun 30, 2016 at 3:43pm
You have nothing to regret. You have done very well. Of course, there will always be the questions of what might have happened if you had taken another path. Those questions apply to everyone. If you had no regrets, it would be because you didn't try to accomplish much. Be happy and grateful.
Ah, Nepotism
Jun 30, 2016 at 5:49pm
Isn't it nice to have a daddy who can get you a steady, well-paying job with the city? There are other people who are go-getters, did everything they were supposed to, studied hard, stayed out of trouble, and still can't get anywhere! You had weekends off, summer vacations, a home in a nice neighborhood but "regret" not having had more? What the fuck.
Wondering
Jun 30, 2016 at 8:38pm
How was the fishin'?
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